View from The Bridges -Class Performance Project- #2

Back again.. to get a better picture of who was doing what there is a dedicated list which we
followed except when that person did his or her "segment" - it is as follows :

Andy/Jane - audio
JoEllen - video mixer/audio
Sunmin - camera
Laura - camera
Julie - computer
Scott - computer/ video mixer/ director
Jane - overall stage manager/MC/ video

*The order of segments were those done by the following


Scott's: Blocking The Block
Laura: View from Under the Bridge
Jane: What's Up With Talking?
JoEllen: Ethersketch
Sunmin: Bridge of the Moments
Julie: Dreaming of Going to Korea
Andrew: Andy will be putting together 5 30-60 second transitions that will separate each piece.

Although we had a false start, our first segment by Scott went off pretty well. His collaborator - a guitarist,was on another floor-and was ready to start again. We had, it seemed, taken off without Andy's tabla playing which I really thought added so much-- I was responsible for the on-stage patter, and a Master of Ceremonies ' "act" -

Laura's piece worked well.. she had a dancer at another local location- waiting to dance via skype
and they did well... they danced simultaneously

Jane: I had the most complicated film and skit - I think it went OK- although it needed precise timing to really make it effective.. my long distance collaborators were able to get through
Mariangeles read the excerpt from Luciano Berio's Sinfonia -( very highbrow) and she would lapse into Spanish-
Then my segment went on - me trying to write a song but not wanting to get hung up in words..
Then Ernesto came on board - he had found a way to load in his pictures into the Skype program
as a slide show.

In between the segments came Andy's Tabla

Next was Joellen's Ethernet painting that used the Coccinella server - that has a chat room where you set up a "white board" and various people in different locations can create drawings simultaneously. I did my best with that...

Sumin - used Julie to sing an original piece and she composed something for the piano as well

Julie had a skype collaborator, Myung, from Korea - playing the theme from The Titanic on
a whistle type instrument

It ended nicely - it went over time however and through the whole presentation, we had a n audience person, Synthia - projected on the ceiling through a computer/projector combination.

It was a great experience to work that hard to create something that short!- with collaborators from nearby localities to Buenos Aires and Korea - but we did it and it had a lot of substance...
One has to know the entire production -) - it was experimental - it would have been really awesome if we had had the time to make it "really seamless" -